Identification of New claudin family members by a novel PSI-BLAST based approach with enhanced specificity

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 808-815

  Wu, Jun ^a,c   Helftenbein, Gerd ^a   Koslowski, Michael ^b   Sahin, Ugur ^b   Tureci, Özlem ^a  

^a Ganymed Pharmaceuticals AG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c SHANGHAI CENTER FOR BIOINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Domain; Iterative; PERL; PMP22_Claudin

Indexed keywords

CLAUDIN; CLAUDIN 1; CLAUDIN 10A; CLAUDIN 10B; CLAUDIN 11; CLAUDIN 12; CLAUDIN 14; CLAUDIN 15; CLAUDIN 16; CLAUDIN 17; CLAUDIN 18; CLAUDIN 19; CLAUDIN 2; CLAUDIN 20; CLAUDIN 22; CLAUDIN 23; CLAUDIN 3; CLAUDIN 4; CLAUDIN 5; CLAUDIN 6; CLAUDIN 7; CLAUDIN 8; CLAUDIN 9; CLAUDIN DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EVALUATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSITION SPECIFIC ITERATED BASIC LOCAL ALIGNMENT SEARCH TOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REFSEQ DATA BASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 33751074426     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21218     Document Type: Article

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